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Knox County Is Blinding Its Own Surveillance Cameras – Here's Why
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (224+ words) After an $800,000 ALPR rollout bypassed commission review for six years, Knox County engineers fitted lens covers over 143 Flock Safety cameras Knox County, Tennessee spent roughly $800,000 building a surveillance app-era license plate reader network. Now it’s paying engineers to physically blind…...
Your Apple Watch Is Listening Now. Apple Is Normalizing Device Surveillance.
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (294+ words) Apple Watch Series 12 ships ambient listening to 100 million users, reshaping consent norms and pressuring rivals on privacy Remember your last parent-teacher conference? Your doctor rattling off medication instructions. A colleague pitching an idea you half-heard over lunch. Apple’s new Audio…...
Your Smart TV Is Watching Everything – How to Reclaim Your Privacy Now
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (304+ words) ACR technology on LG and Samsung sets scans your screen up to 100 times per second — and three steps can stop it Opting out of ACR actually works — but only if you can find where manufacturers hid the toggle. These names…...
Police Are Worried Meta’s Smart Glasses Can Turn the Cameras Back on Them
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (342+ words) Agencies across 14 states scrambled to ban Ray-Ban Meta glasses after detainees used them to document conditions inside federally investigated facilities A July 2025 TikTok video from a South Carolina detention facility set the whole thing in motion. “These agencies surveil the…...
How LinkNYC Kiosks Log Your Phone as You Walk By
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (158+ words) New York’s 7,500 LinkNYC kiosks log MAC addresses, GPS coordinates, and browsing data from passersby who never touch a screen A sensor grid at eye level is a different thing entirely from a camera mounted on a rooftop. According to NYCLU,…...
Your Smart TV Is Spying On You: Every Brand Does It
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (271+ words) Vizio’s $2.2M FTC settlement exposed an industry-wide practice that still ships enabled by default on nearly every major brand Cheap panels are subsidized by your viewing data — and the economics are entirely deliberate. You clicked “Agree” at midnight during setup — here’s…...
You Unfollowed Trump. Instagram Wouldn’t Let You.
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (229+ words) Meta’s silence before Inauguration Day left millions discovering the automatic follower transfer only after their feeds changed The official explanation is plausible — the silence beforehand was not. Here’s how the handoff actually works: That last point matters. The explanation is…...
LG Smart TVs Caught Recording Audio in Standby and Scanning Your Network
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (286+ words) Gamers Nexus tests show LG’s webOS TVs scan home networks and buffer mic audio while powered down, feeding 363M-device ad platform When the screen goes dark, LG’s webOS reportedly begins cataloguing every device on your network. Standby mode, it turns…...
Axon's ACEIP Program Can Access Your ID Photo & Use It To Train AI Models
1+ week, 2+ day ago (198+ words) Axon’s body-camera data program lets agencies share driver’s license images and plate data collected since 2022 without notifying the people pictured Axon’s ACEIP transparency portal confirms access to identity documents, license plate images, and geolocation data — sourced directly from the company’s…...
Norway Just Declared War on Meta's 'Pervert Glasses"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (324+ words) Norway moves to ban facial recognition in consumer smart glasses before Meta activates the feature on its Ray-Bans A targeted strike at specific AI features — not a blanket ban on smart glasses. What’s on the table: Critically, the move is…...